Our Navy Rotator commercial charter flight left Norfolk on Sunday, 19 Dec at 22:35 and arrived in Rota, Spain ~12:00. Due to the severe winter storms impacting Northern Europe the relief flight crew was delayed in Germany. Omni Air International booked everyone a room at a 4-star hotel in Rota with lunch and dinner buffets included. We all had time to sleep and have a shower or bath. We left the hotel at 04:00 and the flight resumed at 07:30.
The Hotel had a wonderful display of the Holy Family. It is a Spanish business tradition to display the Christmas Manger in great detail. There are vendors all over Madrid's Plaza Major selling Christmas Display materials.
The plane landed at NAS Sigonella around 11:30 and had a normal 2-hour ground stop. The next leg was to Bahrain where we landed at 21:00 and after another 2-hour ground stop we took off for Djibouti.
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